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Re: "I would say.....", "I would do that"

I often see that you use "I would say.....", "I would do that". What do they mean? Why don't we use "will" instead? What is the difference between "would" and "will"?
Thanks.

Hi trueheart, this was thrashed to death and beyond a few times earlier in the year, revived, and thrashed again. But unfortunately the good answers given then can't be retrieved because "would" can't be searched for. This is a real pity. It's a waste of the exhaustive (and exhausting) replies given back then.
I would encourage you though to do a search for poster 'keannu' between Feb - March, 2012 and manually look through the threads for "would" in the title. You will get some useful hits.

Re: "I would say.....", "I would do that"

Originally Posted by Raymott

Hi trueheart, this was thrashed to death and beyond a few times earlier in the year, revived, and thrashed again. But unfortunately the good answers given then can't be retrieved because "would" can't be searched for. This is a real pity. It's a waste of the exhaustive (and exhausting) replies given back then.
I would encourage you though to do a search for poster 'keannu' between Feb - March, 2012 and manually look through the threads for "would" in the title. You will get some useful hits.

Re: "I would say.....", "I would do that"

Originally Posted by david11

Does the sentence in red mean more than few times? If yes, then can we use many times or quite number of times to mean that?

No. The phrases are "to death and beyond" and "a few times".
"to death and beyond" - Not only did we thrash it to death, we thrashed it beyond death. This is often referred to as "thrashing a dead horse". It means doing something beyond the point where it still useful to do it.